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to wait up
01
to stay awake and wait for someone to come
Grammatical Information
Composition
phrasal
Action verb
Regular
Inseparable
Particle
up
Base verb
wait
Present tense
wait up
3rd person singular
waits up
Present participle
waiting up
Past simple
waited up
Past participle
waited up
Examples
The dog always waits up for its owner to come back home.
wait up
01
used to ask someone to stop or slow down, often because one wants to talk to them or accompany them to a destination
Dialect
American
AmericanExamples
As they walked ahead, she called out, " Hey, wait up! I want to talk to you about something. "
